This content analytic study identifies the messages employed in the song lyrics of Andrae Crouch, a gospel artist, musician and songwriter. Several chapters equip the reader with a rationale for examining music as rhetoric, black gospel music and the lyrics of Andrae Crouch. The remaining chapters address the methods and procedures used to analyze the lyrics of Crouch and provides an overview of the findings. / Based on a content analysis of protest and labor movement songs by Knupp (1970), the author devised a coding scheme and tested for purposes of exhaustive, mutually exclusive and independent categories and reliability. / The author and another coder content analyzed twelve record albums containing ninety-seven gospel songs by Crouch. Eight of the twenty-six categories used in the study proved to be exhaustive, mutually exclusive, and coded reliably. Additionally, experts on the Bible and gospel music were employed to analyze the lyrics for the use of lyrical ascription. / The study reveals that Crouch's lyrics transcend economic, racial, and social issues and address the individual's spiritual growth. Crouch's use of biblical lyrical ascription was explicit in 53% of his songs with 76% coming from the New Testament. Traditional song lyrical ascription was identified in only 4% of Crouch's lyrics. Finally, Crouch's lyrics represent three distinct periods. The first period, Albums 1-6, reveals the explicit use of "Jesus," "Christ," "Lord," "God," and "Savior" in Crouch's lyrics. The second period, Albums 7-11, use these names the least; however, Crouch's secular appeal is the highest. Period three, Album 12, shows Crouch returning to his initial style to depict God in his lyrics. / Avenues for future research on gospel music are described after the research methodology has been reviewed. Improvements for content analyzing the lyrics of gospel songs should result. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 3955. / Major Professor: Thomas King. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78377 |
| Contributors | Jenkins, Keith Bernard., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 224 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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